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Author Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.

Title Growing up in coal country / Susan Campbell Bartoletti.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1996.
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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA 331.382233409748 Bartol Gro 1996    Available  ---  Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Description 127 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
age Children
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-126).
Summary Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Study Program Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 6.8 3.
Contents Introduction: The Stories I heard -- The Breaker boys: The Breaker -- The Boys and the breaker boss -- High spirits -- Dangerous conditions -- Nippers, spraggers, and mule drivers: The Mines -- Nippers -- Spraggers -- Mule drivers -- The Courage of Martin Crahan -- William McKinney and his mule -- Mules and rats: The Sweethearts of the mine -- Harbingers of bad fortune -- The Miner and his butty: The Work begins -- The Freedom of the mines -- Working conditions -- Dangers in the mines -- Superstitions -- The Patch village: Company houses -- Monday, wash day -- The Company store -- The Culm banks -- School -- After a hard day's work: Quitting time -- Recreation -- Payday -- Old-world ways -- The Black Maria: The Worst offense -- The Black Maria -- Major tragedies -- Strike!: The Greatest honor -- Conclusion: The Legacy of coal country.
Awards American Library Association Notable Children's Book 1997
Audience Middle School.
1110 Lexile.
Study Program Accelerated Reader 6.8.
Reading Counts! 7.3.
Provenance Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Subject Child labor -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Child labor.
Pennsylvania.
History.
Coal miners -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Coal miners.
Immigrants -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Immigrants.
Anthracite coal industry -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Coal mines and mining -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Anthracite coal industry.
Coal miners.
Coal mines and mining.
Coal mines and mining.
Children-Employment-Pennsylvania-History -- Juvenile literature.
Genre/Form History.
Juvenile works.
Other Form: Online version: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Growing up in coal country. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1996 (OCoLC)606149019
ISBN 0395778476 (hardcover)
9780395778470 (hardcover)
0395979145 (paperback)
9780395979143 (paperback)
0329125516
1413128092
9780329125516
9781413128093

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